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Kenya: The establishment of illegal community courts for arbitrating sexual abuse of children and teenage pregnancies have been blamed for the rising cases of abuse in the county.
Isaiah Khang'ati, a volunteer children's officer in the county's Children's Department, said the rampant cases of underage pregnancies and defilement in the area that have led to high numbers of school dropouts could only be stopped if such arbitration institutes were eliminated.
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